As a Technical Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business and stakeholder needs. This role requires a strong balance of technical leadership, people leadership, architecture ownership, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Technical Lead, you will:

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to architect scalable, resilient, and high-performing software solutions with strong product and domain understanding
• Lead the technical design and hands-on implementation of key initiatives, working closely with product owners, architects, and engineering teams
• Drive engineering excellence through rigorous code reviews, robust testing strategies, quality analysis, and continuous improvement practices
• Establish and enforce industry best practices, coding standards, and development processes across projects and teams
• Mentor and support engineers at different levels, fostering technical growth through coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing
• Provide strong technical leadership to ensure high-quality deliverables, sound architectural decisions, and timely execution of project milestones
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and planning sessions with Product Owners and engineering teams, ensuring alignment on priorities, technical feasibility, and delivery goals
• Identify technical risks, propose mitigation strategies, and proactively resolve complex engineering challenges
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and operational excellence within the team

About You

You're a fit for the role of Technical Lead if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience with a strong track record of delivering scalable and reliable software solutions
• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of complex software projects and distributed systems
• Strong technical leadership experience, with the ability to guide teams, influence decisions, and drive execution
• Advanced proficiency in JVM-based languages such Java and Scala
• Interest in working with Scala and willingness to explore functional programming paradigms
• Deep understanding of software design patterns, architectural principles, and system design best practices
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker
• Strong expertise in relational database management systems
• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise architecture, including scalability, system integration, security, reliability, and testing strategies
• Proficiency with Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems
• Strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable, testable, and well-documented code
• Experience implementing automated testing and quality assurance practices across the development lifecycle
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt, and lead through changing technologies, business needs, and priorities
• Agile mindset with the flexibility to manage shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across teams and organizational levels

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model:

We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance:

Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth:

By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits:

We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture:

Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact:

Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:

 We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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